EV Observe - Use AWS-Paas-cloudwatch Service Template
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a Cloud platform that provides a virtual environment and offers online services to other websites or client applications.
The AWS-PaaS-CloudWatch service template uses the AWS API made available by the Amazon CloudWatch service to report data to EV Observe. AWS monitoring in EV Observe using this service template enables you to:
- Retrieve the indicators required for building the health status of services.
- Monitor AWS usage charges and receive early warnings when the budget is overrun.
Notes
- To use services based on AWS, specific prerequisites must first be met.
See the detailed procedure
Procedures
How to monitor an AWS metric in EV Observe
Prerequisites
See the detailed procedure Configure AWS Monitoring Prerequisites
Step 1: Find the AWS metric in the Amazon CloudWatch Console
1. Log in to the Amazon CloudWatch Console using your AWS account.
2. Select Metrics in the left pane.
3. Select the metric you want to monitor in EV Observe in the All metrics tab.
4. Display information on the metric in the Source tab.
Step 2: Set up monitoring of the AWS metric in EV Observe using the AWS-PaaS-CloudWatch service template
SelectCompanyInCompanyTree_Procedure
1. Go to the Web app.
2. Select the company from the company tree structure.
Notes:
- The selected company must be associated with a Box.
- You can create a new company. See the procedure
3. Create a new service.
- Select Configuration > Services > List in the menu.
- Click + Add in the Mode: Box tab.
- Specify the information below.
General information tab
- Service template: Select the AWS-PaaS-CloudWatch service template.
- Name: Enter the name of the new service to be created. Its name should correspond to the event to be captured.
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Availability and checks tab
- Metric name: Enter the name specified in the Amazon CloudWatch Console (value in blue).
- Aggregation type: Select the Average value.
- The samplecount, maximum and minimum values are used to check the data sent by AWS when there is an issue.
- Period: Specify the data analysis period.
- By default, data is retrieved over 15 minutes with an accuracy of 5 minutes.
- Dimensions: Specify the dimensions of the metric.
- A dimension is a combination of Name (value in red) and Value (value in green).
- If you want to specify several dimensions, you must separate them using the semi-colon ; character.
- Specify the dimensions in the following format, Name=$Dimension_name, Value=$Dimension_value. Do not insert quote marks.
- Namespace: Enter the name in the following format, AWS/$Service_name (value in black).
4. Click Validate.
How to monitor AWS usage charges in EV Observe in real time
Step 1: Enable billing alerts in the AWS Management Console
1. Go to the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console.
2. Click Billing preferences in the left pane.
3. Select the Receive Billing Alerts option.
4. Click Save preferences.
Billing data will be added within 15 minutes to the Amazon CloudWatch Console.
Step 2: Find the AWS/Billing metric in the Amazon CloudWatch Console
1. Log in to the Amazon CloudWatch Console using your AWS account.
2. Select Metrics in the left pane.
3. Select the Billing tab and click By Service.
4. Select the AWS/Billing metric you want to monitor in EV Observe in the All metrics tab.
5. Display information on the metric in the Source tab.
Step 3: Set up monitoring for AWS billing in Box using the AWS-PaaS-CloudWatch service template
SelectCompanyInCompanyTree_Procedure
1. Go to the Web app.
2. Select the company from the company tree structure.
Notes:
- The selected company must be associated with a Box.
- You can create a new company. See the procedure
3. Create a new service.
- Select Configuration > Services > List in the menu.
- Click + Add in the Mode: Box tab.
- Specify the information below.
General information tab
- Service template: Select the AWS-PaaS-CloudWatch service template.
- Name: Enter the name of the new service to be created. Its name should correspond to the event to be captured.
example Link Down
Availability and checks tab
- Region: Billing data is available in the eu-east-1 region.
- You can modify the account configuration for a specific host if several control points are specified.
- Metric name: Enter the name specified in the Amazon CloudWatch Console (value in green).
- Aggregation type: Select the Average value.
- The samplecount, maximum and minimum values are used to check the data sent by AWS when there is an issue.
- Period: Specify the data analysis period.
- By default, data is retrieved over 15 minutes with an accuracy of 5 minutes.
- Dimensions: Specify the dimensions of the metric.
- A dimension is a combination of Name (value in red) and Value (value in blue).
- If you want to specify several dimensions, you must separate them using the semi-colon ; character.
- Specify the dimensions in the following format, Name=$Dimension_name, Value=$Dimension_value. Do not insert quote marks.
- Namespace: Enter the AWS/Billing value.
- Enter the name in the following format, AWS/$Service_name (value in black).
4. Click Validate.